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25 January 2024
drawing Gerhard Richter 11.8.2023 (3), 2023 Colored ink and pencil on paper, contemporary drawing, art on paper

Gerhard Richter

11.8.2023 (3), 2023
Colored ink and pencil on paper
21.5 x 26 cm

Gerhard Richter
25 January – 28 March 2024
David Zwirner, London

Gerhard Richter

16.5.2023 (2), 2023
Ink and pencil on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

[from the pressrelease]

[…] An expansive group of new works on paper—some made with ink or pencil, others with a combination of the two—illuminates the newfound urgency and prominence that Richter has placed on method and technique in drawing.
Richter created the ink drawings, a number of which include unprecedented vividness of colour, by dripping the medium onto paper and shifting around the sheet to produce unexpected forms, further augmenting the improvisatory and captivating freedom of movement unique to this body of work. For the pencil drawings, Richter instead combines various elements from a limited set of forms and techniques—including meandering lines, broad tonal planes applied with angled strokes of graphite, and passages of smudging, hatching, and erasure—thereby uniting choice and chance through this infinitely generative process. These works on paper condense and distil the tenets that have remained central to Richter’s practice throughout his career. As noted by Dieter Schwarz, editor of the artist’s catalogue raisonné of drawings: ‘They are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter’s hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the act of drawing itself, gauging the conditions of drawing.’

Gerhard Richter

15.5.2023, 2023
Colored ink, pencil, and colored pencil on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

Gerhard Richter

14.5.2023, 2023
Pencil and colored pencil on paper
21 x 29.7 cm

25 February 2022

Gerhard Richter

8.12.1989, 1989
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
29.7 × 21 cm

Gerhard Richter. Drawings | Zeichnungen 1963 – 2020
29 January – 12 March 2022
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

Gerhard Richter
Ohne Titel (Febr. 92)
, 1992
Oil and graphite on paper
21 × 16 cm

Gerhard Richter
VII. 91, 1991
Indian ink (brush) on paper
16.5 × 24 cm

Gerhard Richter
Snow White, 2005
Acrylic and graphite on offset print
22.5 × 32 cm

Gerhard Richter
Portrait Günther Uecker, 1968
Graphite and oil on primed canvas
50 × 38 cm

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